My wife and I work with children
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all over the world,
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but, you know, we
have four of our children,
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all grown up.
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And we're kind of out
of that emptiness stage,
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it's very nice.
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And not only emptiness,
but emptiness financially,
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they don't come tapping us
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for a loan every
week, it's lovely.
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But we work with some
of the poorest children
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in the South East Asia region,
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countries like
Philippines and Sri Lanka,
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Cambodia, Burma, and
Thailand, some beautiful kids.
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And I just put a few
of them up on the screen,
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'cause they wanted
to say hello at GYC
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'cause they
couldn't make it themselves.
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You can wave back if you like,
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but it's okay if
you're embarrassed.
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I want to tell you a
story because, you see,
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you have to forgive
my lack of eloquence.
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I am not a pastor.
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I didn't go to theology school.
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In fact, I failed
school at year nine.
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So I'll do the
best that I can today.
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But I'll tell you
some stories at least.
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And I'd like to take
you on a little journey.
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Some time ago, I
was on a river in India,
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The Ganges River,
and I was taking a trip
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to have a look at a place
called The House of Death.
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And as I was rowing down
with my boat down this river,
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I was able to see
just this incredible sight
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of people
washing, bathing, rinsing,
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drinking the
water of the Ganges.
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Now it's pretty dirty.
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It's got
floaties on the top of it
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and it's brown.
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You know, it look
like a chocolate milkshake
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or a caramel
milkshake from McDonalds,
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and it's thick.
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But I came to
the House of Death,
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a quite interesting place.
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And you can see
there on the screen,
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this building is to your left.
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It looks a bit
skewed because, you know,
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I'm not very
good with the camera.
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This is a place where
devout Hindus come to die.
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And they believe that
there is meritorious favor
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in dying by the Ganges
river, at the House of Death,
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where they believe
that they will receive
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a special
dispensation to eternity.
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If they can die in this
disgraceful looking building
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and their bodies
burnt by the Ganges
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and the ash thrown
out into the river,
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they believe
that there is merit.
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But there is a downside to this,
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rather naive and
twisted theology.
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And that is that some
these people unfortunately
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don't die quick enough
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and they're taken
out of the House of Death
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and left in the street
to die because someone else
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is more open to dying quicker.
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And so they are abandoned.
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And this day that
I was in Varanasi,
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I was with some friends
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and we went to the
Sisters of Charity hospice
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that takes care
of these poor people,
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these aged cripples
mostly that have had strokes
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and suffering and terrible pain,
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and they're left to die.
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There was one lady who
had been gnawing at her head
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because she had
been left in the gutter,
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was unable to move.
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And I spoke with this lady
from the Sisters of Charity,
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a nun, spoke perfect English.
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And I asked her, I said,
"Why did you do this job?"
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With absolute
profound theological eloquence,
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She said I...
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Now I must
preface this by saying,
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the Sisters of Charity hospice
is a building almost as grotty
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at the House of Death.
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It doesn't have electricity
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and it has this old
iron door that creeks
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as you walk inside
into the darkened room,
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where these old
people lay on pallets
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and stretches on the floor.
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And she said,
with such eloquence,
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"Where else would I want to be?
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I get to hold
these people in my arms.
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And in their last dying moments,
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I get to share with them
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the love of our
Savior Jesus Christ."
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You know, this
reminded me of experiences,
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but it reminded me of my own.
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I haven't been to the
House of Death on the inside.
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But you come to a
time, you come to a place,
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sometimes in your own
life where you feel you may be
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at the House of the Death.
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You wonder where to from here.
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And the same day,
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I had looked into the
eyes of these children,
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desperate kids
needing something,
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needing food, needing shelter.
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They were living in little huts
with made of sticks with clough
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and tarpaulin
across the top of them.
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And it took me back
to a time in my life
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where, I didn't live like that,
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but where I made a choice
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that I would do all that I could
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to help children like this.
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Let me share with you
some testimonial time.
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That was the last truck I drove.
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I drove five
million kilometers in that
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and another truck
from one side of Australia
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to the other for 17 years.
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That would be like
driving from Phoenix to Maine
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every week there and back,
9,600 kilometers every week.
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I don't know how many miles,
that is about five and a half
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or six thousand miles, I think.
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And it was during that
time that I met this gentleman,
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he was a very nice man.
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And he said to
me, David, he said,
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let me tell you
about Jesus Christ.
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Then I thought, Oh, no!
One of this religious nuts.
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I wasn't religious at all.
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And I was in
this little tiny town,
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we call it a one horse town.
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You know, and even
the horse had run away.
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It was so small.
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And there was my
friend, he was the local
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everything fix it
man and I was there.
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We were chatting
over a cup of tea about
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whatever it was.
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And he was telling me about
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an article he had
read in a magazine
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called "Lock Stock & Barrel"
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some, shoot 'em
up cowboy magazine.
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And the article was
about the new world order
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that I knew nothing about.
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And he was telling me
about, oh, in the future,
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you might have to
chain down your fridge
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because all the Froot Loops
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are gonna come
and steal your food.
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You know, this is the
time of the new well order,
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it's all going to
be weird and dangerous.
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And anyway, I'm
just smirking away
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to myself
thinking the man is crazy.
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And then this guy said to me
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"You will not get
through the future
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unless you have
Jesus Christ in your life"
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Well, I was very patient
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and I showed the
respect that this man
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who is at least 20 years
older than me should deserve.
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And I listened
how does he talked.
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And he talked,
believe me, he talked,
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he talked for three hours.
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You know, he laid
out all he had to say.
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I learnt so much
in that three hours
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that I had forgot all
in that next 15 minutes.
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But anyway, he was a
very interesting chap too.
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And he had been to all
sorts of interesting places.
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So it wasn't so bad.
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But anyway, at lunch time,
I was getting a bit hungry,
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so I walked across to
the takeaway food place
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to get some food
and he followed me.
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He wouldn't give me
peace. So we're walking across.
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And I got my normal
lunch, which was probably,
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I can't remember,
but it would have been
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at least one
hamburger or a sausage roll
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or something like that and
some coke and an ice-cream,
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and a chocolate bar.
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And then he said, "You
don't need to worry about
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all that stuff in the
future in the new world order
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because you're not
going to live long enough."
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and he starts
pointing at what's on my plate.
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And then he gives
me this health message.
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You know, I was very
thankful for that man
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because, you
know, about 15 minutes
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after I left that
little one horse town,
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I was driving in my truck
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and I felt this
incredible conviction.
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I felt what he had in his
life, I need it in my own.
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You know, it was really...
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It was so simple.
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This man, you know,
he had a lot to say,
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but he had a lot
of interesting things
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and he talked about Jesus
and it all sort of made sense.
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So I drove into Perth,
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a remaining six or
eight hour journey.
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And anyway, I got to the office
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at the freight dispatch yard.
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And I said there
to the secretary,
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I said, he is my
manifest with all my paperwork
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and by the way...
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I actually had known
him for a couple of years.
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So I said by the way,
I've just become a Christian.
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I said, I am going to be one
of the Seventh-day Adventists.
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And she said, "Ah!
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I'm one too" You know what,
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the first thing
that I thought of was,
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"Hey, cool, we're both
Seventh-day Adventist."
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what he told me yesterday?
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You know, let me just...
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Don't worry, this is an appeal.
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It's a challenge.
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You go out of here and
tell the first three people
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that you know that
you are friends with,
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who you are and
what you believe,
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and why you believe
it, and why you thing
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Jesus is coming
soon, because she didn't.
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And I've thought
about that many times
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when the opportunity comes
for you to share Jesus Christ
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and you zip and sit in
silence, don't hold back.
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There's crazy truck
drivers like me out there
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that need to hear.
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And so she said to me,
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"Would you like to go
to a youth rally tomorrow?"
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Well, I said, "Yeah. Sure."
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I guess it's
Saturday, I won't be working.
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So she said "I'll
meet you at the truck stop,
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I'll pick you up,
we'll go together."
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And in the morning, I
put on my best clothes,
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which was a pair of old
blue shorts and a blue singlet.
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You know, not this $30 suit
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I picked up in a
cheap market in Cambodia.
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And I hate these
things, I'll tell you what.
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Anyway, and she comes
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in this old
clapped-out rusty Mazda 626,
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and she's got her two sons
in the back covered in pimples
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and spots from too much
pizza, and I think to myself,
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because look at the car.
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It's not gonna win anything.
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And look at the youth
I've got to hang around with.
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I didn't know what a
youth rally was, you see.
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And so we...
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Then I think, no, well, I
did promise, so I'm going.
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And so off we go.
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And we arrive at this park
in the middle of the mountains.
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And I discovered
that the youth rally
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is a religious congregation
and there's a preacher.
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And I had asked her
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when we pulled
up in the car park,
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where's all the fancy cars
and all the hot rods, you know.
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Anyway, I was
learning, but it was okay.
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Now there's another
thing that happened as well.
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I had a problem
and that was because
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I had just become a
Seventh-day Adventist
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and I just told
you earlier, you know,
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I used to drive a
lot of miles every week.
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You've just taken one-seventh
of my working week away, God.
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You need to
provide a way out for me
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because I can't
physically do that
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many miles in that short time.
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And I needed to be
able to work on the Sabbath.
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I had a lot of
financial commitments,
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these trucks don't come cheap.
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And I was up to here in
debt. I needed this work.
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So I prayed for two
days as I drove along.
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I did other things as
well. Let me show you.
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I learned to read
while I was driving.
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I used to read comics.
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Anyway, it's about
straight roads in Australia.
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It's all right.
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And honestly, I only ever
ran two people off the road
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and it wasn't my fault.
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And so I started reading a Bible
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instead of reading comics.
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And I was reading
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and I got to this
place about Joseph
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and he meets his brothers.
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I'm crying, I'm
reaching for a tissue in my...
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You know, as I'm driving
along. This is an amazing story.
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And I'm reading.
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I didn't know
where you had to start,
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so I started at Genesis.
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When I got to
the dispatch office
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on the other
side of the country,
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a day and a half later,
and I went into the office,
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I had been worrying about this,
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I had been praying
about this for two weeks.
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I was wondering what
this man was gonna...
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He was like the owner,
bus person that makes sure
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that you keep your truck moving
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because his
freight to get there fast.
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And so I went in the office
and I said, I need to talk,
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and he sort of
looked over his glasses
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and he gave me
that look as if to say,
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you didn't crash
the truck, did you?
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And I said, "Look,
I've become a Christian."
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It all sort of fell out wrong.
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I had been rehearsing
this for two days, you know.
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And I just said,
"I've become one of those
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Seventh-day Adventists
and I've got to stop working
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when the sun sets on Friday
because it's my new religion.
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And he took off his glasses
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and he turned around to face me,
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and he said, David..
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He said, "You need
some religion in your life.
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You can have Saturday
and Sunday if you want it."
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And you know
what? I was so thankful.
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You know, I didn't
even check the speed limit
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as I was driving
down the freeway.
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I was on cloud nine
as I was going home.
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And that's where my Christian
experience really began.
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Having read the Bible,
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someone gave me
another book as well
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"Patriarchs and Prophets,"
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I've never heard of such things.
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And it was a good book too.
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And I learnt to read
that while I was driving.
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I got the big print version.
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so I got the whole
series and I read it.
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And it was so
good, I read it again.
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It was great.
00:14:05.77\00:14:07.11
Anyway, and I
thought, there's other people
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that must be like me that
want to hear this good news.
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Let me go and find them.
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So this was the pre-Google days,
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you know, so I got
the phone book out.
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And I wanted to
find the busiest place
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in my home city,
which is Melbourne.
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The best place
to be in Australia.
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And it was the
number 96 tram stop
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in Bourke Street
Mall, in the city center.
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So I decided that's where
I'm going on Saturday afternoon.
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My mates can go
and lay activities,
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but I'm going to
talk to few folk.
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So I had walked
up to the tram stop,
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and before anyone
could say no, I'd say,
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"Good day. How are you going?"
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You know, that's how
we do it in Australia,
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"Good day, How are you doing?"
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And I'd shake
their hands and say,
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"I'm Dave and I want to share
with you about Jesus Christ."
00:14:50.75\00:14:53.05
And before they
could say no, I'd say,
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"Wait a minute, wait a minute,
you got to hear this first,
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then you can say no."
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And I'd tell them a
little bit, not much.
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Just simple stuff, you know.
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And I'd say, "I have
got something for you read.
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You can read, can't you?"
And they'd say, "Yeah, sure."
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I they'd take it and
they'd say, "Thank you."
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"You're going to
remember what I told you?"
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Yeah, I'm going to remember.
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I'd walk down the
tram stop a bit further,
00:15:10.44\00:15:12.07
by the time I got to the end,
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they were all
rushing to get on the tram
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because they didn't
want to talk to me anymore.
00:15:14.84\00:15:16.31
And I'd get back
to the first person,
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I'd say, "Did you forget?"
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"No, no, we remembered."
00:15:19.08\00:15:20.42
Anyway, where do you start?
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You've got to start
where the people are, right?
00:15:23.25\00:15:26.05
Anyway, we had a chatter.
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Over the time,
there was two mates,
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we used to go together.
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And we were as
mad as cut snakes,
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that's another good
Australian expression.
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And the three of
us, sometimes four,
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we talked to 21, 500 people
over a few years period time.
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It was a great experience.
00:15:46.27\00:15:47.84
We got very
professional at this.
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What we used to do, we
used to take a little table
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and put a few other
things on there as well.
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And then we'd do rent-a-crowd.
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I'd get them to stand around
the other side of the table
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and ask pretend questions.
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And that would draw a crowd
and then sort of, you know...
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Anyway, but there
was still, I felt,
00:16:01.16\00:16:07.13
let me be honest with
you, let me be frank with you,
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I still felt there was something
00:16:09.20\00:16:10.67
incredibly good
about what we were doing
00:16:10.70\00:16:13.40
but I was missing
something very, very important.
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There was to me
what appeared to be
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a holistic part of
the Gospel message,
00:16:18.74\00:16:21.71
what I call the hands and feet,
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the dirt under the
fingernails, the doing,
00:16:23.98\00:16:26.61
you know, the bit where
I'd feel more comfortable,
00:16:26.65\00:16:29.08
when I don't have to wear a coat
00:16:29.12\00:16:30.45
and I can roll my sleeves up,
00:16:30.49\00:16:31.82
you know, and
get in and do stuff.
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I'm a truck
driver, farming background.
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I like to do
stuff with my hands.
00:16:36.59\00:16:38.73
And I wanted to do something,
you know, not just preaching,
00:16:38.76\00:16:42.33
talking all the time, you know.
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And so let me take you on
a little bit of a journey.
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Is that all right?
00:16:46.97\00:16:48.30
I'll tell you a
few more stories.
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Okay, this is
where you need to listen
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because now
we've had the fun bit,
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this is now the serious bit.
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Let me tell you, there
are 12 million children
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enslaved against
their will today.
00:17:01.05\00:17:03.75
This day, while
we're here in Phoenix,
00:17:03.79\00:17:05.79
many of them are
forced into prostitution.
00:17:05.82\00:17:08.62
This is real, this is how it is,
00:17:08.66\00:17:11.63
and this is today.
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Children are not for
sale, but it happens.
00:17:13.29\00:17:17.87
And as a Christian, as a father,
00:17:17.90\00:17:21.57
and as someone I know
who has seen these children
00:17:21.60\00:17:26.57
and worked with them
for so long, I can tell you,
00:17:26.61\00:17:29.14
when you look into
the eyes of a child
00:17:29.18\00:17:31.28
that is held in
bondage and they appeal to you,
00:17:31.31\00:17:36.22
even if they cannot
speak their language,
00:17:36.25\00:17:38.32
their eyes will appeal to you
00:17:38.35\00:17:40.16
and you turn away and
say no and do nothing,
00:17:40.19\00:17:45.39
you have missed the
most momentous opportunity
00:17:45.43\00:17:48.73
of your life to
share the Gospel message
00:17:48.76\00:17:51.97
as a living
testimony to this child.
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We have to do something.
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You cannot just
look and look away.
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Let's have a look in the Bible.
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Learn to do good.
Are we still learning?
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Yes.
00:18:06.61\00:18:08.18
I'm glad there's
three honest people here.
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Seek Justice,
help the oppressed,
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defend the cause of the orphan,
00:18:13.09\00:18:14.42
and fight for the
rights of the widow.
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Did you know this afternoon
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when you came to
the plenary session
00:18:17.66\00:18:18.99
that you'll be seeking, helping,
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defending, and fighting?
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There was a time in England,
which is my birth country,
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where there was a great
man, William Wilberforce.
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You may have
seen the great movie
00:18:31.01\00:18:33.31
"Amazing Grace,"
came out a few years ago.
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William Wilberforce
was a great statesmen,
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as it were, a
great man that stood up
00:18:37.61\00:18:39.75
for the rights of the people
00:18:39.78\00:18:41.12
and he, and
along with his friends,
00:18:41.15\00:18:42.98
they began a process
which took many years,
00:18:43.02\00:18:45.59
17 years, to
help the free slaves
00:18:45.62\00:18:48.22
and abolish on the
other side of the Atlantic
00:18:48.26\00:18:51.46
the disgraceful
trade of slavery.
00:18:51.49\00:18:54.53
Finally, it came abound.
00:18:54.56\00:18:57.03
He was a man that stood up
00:18:57.07\00:18:59.23
in the face of
political correctness
00:18:59.27\00:19:01.60
and said this is wrong.
00:19:01.64\00:19:03.91
The Bible today, speaks volumes.
00:19:03.94\00:19:06.31
It tells us what
pure religion is.
00:19:06.34\00:19:08.91
It tells us about emancipation.
00:19:08.94\00:19:11.45
It tells us about
freedom and what it means
00:19:11.48\00:19:13.45
to bring freedom to others.
00:19:13.48\00:19:15.08
Pure and lasting religion
in the sight of God our Father
00:19:15.12\00:19:18.25
means that we
must care for orphans
00:19:18.29\00:19:19.82
and widows in their troubles
00:19:19.85\00:19:21.36
and refuse to let
the world corrupt us.
00:19:21.39\00:19:23.56
Now I am going to
read that backwards.
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If you are being
corrupted by the world,
00:19:27.03\00:19:28.83
it is because you're not caring
for the orphans and widows
00:19:28.86\00:19:31.17
and you don't have pure religion
00:19:31.20\00:19:32.53
that the Father likes.
00:19:32.57\00:19:34.87
Do you like it that way?
00:19:34.90\00:19:37.27
Because that's how it really is.
00:19:37.31\00:19:40.78
Freedom, it does
come with a price.
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Look at this freedom.
00:19:46.48\00:19:48.15
This is freedom on
the face of a child
00:19:48.18\00:19:52.05
that was suffering
the indignity of slavery.
00:19:52.09\00:19:56.09
The Bible tells us in Isaiah,
00:20:00.50\00:20:01.90
remove the
chains of the oppression
00:20:01.93\00:20:03.26
and the yoke of injustice,
let the oppressed go free.
00:20:03.30\00:20:06.63
Share your food with the hungry
00:20:06.67\00:20:09.40
and open your homes
to the homeless poor.
00:20:09.44\00:20:11.71
Give your clothes to
those who have nothing to wear
00:20:11.74\00:20:13.88
and do not
refuse to help your own.
00:20:13.91\00:20:16.95
It's very clear, very clear.
00:20:16.98\00:20:20.95
There could be no argument.
00:20:20.98\00:20:22.32
There could be
no misunderstanding
00:20:22.35\00:20:26.49
of what Isaiah is saying to us.
00:20:26.52\00:20:30.53
There's a certain
desire for justice.
00:20:30.56\00:20:35.93
Jesus shared it
and he showed it.
00:20:39.30\00:20:42.24
We can do it.
00:20:42.27\00:20:45.01
We need a new
William Wilberforce
00:20:45.04\00:20:46.51
in our century.
00:20:46.54\00:20:49.21
Two centuries ago, he stood up.
00:20:49.24\00:20:51.81
Where is the new man
that's going to stand up?
00:20:51.85\00:20:57.82
This lady had had 15 children.
00:21:02.02\00:21:05.89
When I met her, the
oldest was 14 years old.
00:21:05.93\00:21:09.10
She was this
pregnant with her second.
00:21:09.13\00:21:11.87
Her first was on her
arm, 15 children, 10 had died.
00:21:11.90\00:21:18.54
Ten deaths in one family, why?
00:21:18.57\00:21:22.84
Extreme poverty.
00:21:22.88\00:21:25.58
This is one of our sisters.
00:21:25.61\00:21:27.15
She is an Adventist sister,
one of our own, same faith,
00:21:27.18\00:21:31.89
in another country.
00:21:31.92\00:21:34.49
And this is her home.
00:21:34.52\00:21:36.29
Check out the cooking pot.
00:21:36.32\00:21:38.19
That's where she
cooks. That's her bed.
00:21:38.23\00:21:40.40
The two children
close to her are her own.
00:21:40.43\00:21:43.50
The others are just
kind of straight them away
00:21:43.53\00:21:45.60
that came in for the photograph.
00:21:45.63\00:21:47.80
And she lives in destitution
and she lives in poverty.
00:21:47.84\00:21:52.57
Her children were malnourished,
00:21:55.48\00:21:57.61
so we got them
onto a feeding program
00:21:57.65\00:22:00.08
where they came along
00:22:00.12\00:22:01.45
for free healthy
nutritious meals a week.
00:22:01.48\00:22:04.25
One of them happens to
be on a Saturday morning.
00:22:04.29\00:22:07.19
Special day, Saturdays.
00:22:07.22\00:22:09.06
And because it was
on a Saturday morning,
00:22:09.09\00:22:10.69
we thought we'd do
some fun stuff for the kids
00:22:10.73\00:22:14.43
and started a VBS program
00:22:14.46\00:22:16.67
because that's what you
do on Saturdays, isn't it?
00:22:16.70\00:22:19.43
And the mothers were involved
with this program as well.
00:22:19.47\00:22:23.71
They go to work number of shifts
00:22:23.74\00:22:25.77
through the week in
the community garden,
00:22:25.81\00:22:27.34
which we provide.
00:22:27.38\00:22:28.84
And they grow food,
00:22:28.88\00:22:31.38
and they cook it themselves
for their own children.
00:22:31.41\00:22:34.38
And after a
while, these children
00:22:34.42\00:22:36.38
are no longer
hungry and malnourished.
00:22:36.42\00:22:40.06
And when these children get tick
00:22:40.09\00:22:42.12
from the municipal
health nurses being healthy,
00:22:42.16\00:22:45.09
the moms can
apply for a micro loan.
00:22:45.13\00:22:47.43
And today, let
me tell you, Sonia,
00:22:47.46\00:22:51.00
our friend is
not just a happy mum,
00:22:51.03\00:22:56.34
but her faith in
humanity and her God,
00:22:56.37\00:23:00.08
our God, has changed.
00:23:00.11\00:23:03.61
I'll introduce you to a verse
00:23:03.65\00:23:04.98
that you may or may
not have read before.
00:23:05.01\00:23:08.22
Micro finance is
an incredible concept
00:23:08.25\00:23:10.79
and it's right
here in the scripture.
00:23:10.82\00:23:12.42
If there are any
poor in your towns,
00:23:12.45\00:23:14.26
do not be hard-hearted
and tight-fisted towards them.
00:23:14.29\00:23:16.52
Instead, be generous and
lend them what they need.
00:23:16.56\00:23:18.73
It didn't say
give, it said lend.
00:23:18.76\00:23:21.43
That's a new concept, isn't it?
00:23:21.46\00:23:22.80
We lend.
00:23:22.83\00:23:24.17
And so micro finance, we
lend small amounts of money,
00:23:24.20\00:23:27.14
$120 at a time.
00:23:27.17\00:23:29.20
And over the period
that we had been working
00:23:29.24\00:23:31.51
and we now have thousands
of micro finance clients,
00:23:31.54\00:23:35.18
we have used this as a
bridge into communities
00:23:35.21\00:23:37.91
that we would never
otherwise be able to go.
00:23:37.95\00:23:40.32
And I can tell you
that with our women,
00:23:40.35\00:23:44.12
we are speaking
the words of Christ
00:23:44.15\00:23:47.19
to the men in the
mosques of parts of this world
00:23:47.22\00:23:50.73
because the
doors have been opened.
00:23:50.76\00:23:52.09
And in the Philippines,
00:23:52.13\00:23:53.46
we have the only Sharia approved
00:23:53.50\00:23:55.53
micro finance
program in the whole country.
00:23:55.56\00:23:58.20
And we are brought
with welcomed open arms
00:23:58.23\00:24:00.67
to work in
impoverished communities
00:24:00.70\00:24:03.41
where Islam is the
status quo in religion.
00:24:03.44\00:24:08.28
Jesus will find ways for
us to work to share His word
00:24:08.31\00:24:13.11
if it is our will to
work with Him in partnership.
00:24:13.15\00:24:18.32
Also, in these communities,
00:24:18.35\00:24:19.69
we see them that
they're ravaged by typhoons
00:24:19.72\00:24:22.79
and many of you
would have remembered,
00:24:22.82\00:24:24.76
only a year ago
the super typhoon
00:24:24.79\00:24:27.30
that hit the Philippines.
00:24:27.33\00:24:28.66
When your house is
made of sticks and straw,
00:24:30.53\00:24:33.34
a typhoon will rip it to pieces.
00:24:33.37\00:24:36.17
Hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones,
they're just so destructive.
00:24:36.20\00:24:40.34
And we found there, we
have this beautiful mother.
00:24:40.38\00:24:45.48
Her name is Hannah.
00:24:45.51\00:24:46.85
And Hannah, a Muslim lady,
00:24:46.88\00:24:49.88
was struggling
to cross the river
00:24:49.92\00:24:51.29
with her little
child to get to safety.
00:24:51.32\00:24:52.92
Her house was
demolished. She lost everything.
00:24:52.95\00:24:55.29
The river just
took the whole lot away.
00:24:55.32\00:24:57.66
And she was left destitute,
00:24:57.69\00:24:59.46
hardly even with
the clothes on her back,
00:24:59.49\00:25:01.80
and certainly
none for her child.
00:25:01.83\00:25:04.20
In an instant,
her life was just,
00:25:04.23\00:25:06.63
and all her possessions
was just flushed away.
00:25:06.67\00:25:10.54
She came desperate for help.
00:25:10.57\00:25:13.11
We started a program.
00:25:13.14\00:25:14.74
Our staff went out
and did baseline surveys
00:25:14.78\00:25:16.95
and discovered the
needs in the community.
00:25:16.98\00:25:19.05
People needed clean water.
00:25:19.08\00:25:20.85
There were diseases
which were in endemic.
00:25:20.88\00:25:22.78
They needed food,
they needed shelter,
00:25:22.82\00:25:25.29
they had lost everything.
00:25:25.32\00:25:28.92
We gave food,
we opened a school.
00:25:28.96\00:25:33.50
It's like the verse,
00:25:33.53\00:25:35.43
opening your home
to the homeless poor.
00:25:35.46\00:25:38.17
We opened our
schools and our homes
00:25:38.20\00:25:40.50
where we had so
many other children
00:25:40.54\00:25:42.04
and we squeezed these families
00:25:42.07\00:25:43.44
in that had lost
everything and had nothing.
00:25:43.47\00:25:45.64
You know, there funny guys,
00:25:45.67\00:25:47.01
they had even
brought their dogs.
00:25:47.04\00:25:48.38
We had to
accommodate their dogs too.
00:25:48.41\00:25:49.81
You know, like they
came in the school classroom.
00:25:49.84\00:25:52.11
And they brought
their cooking pots
00:25:52.15\00:25:54.35
and we would give them some rice
00:25:54.38\00:25:56.48
and they would cook it up,
00:25:56.52\00:25:57.95
but it was okay,
we were helping them.
00:25:57.99\00:26:00.76
And it was at this time
that many of the families
00:26:00.79\00:26:05.03
in this community got together
and they came to us united
00:26:05.06\00:26:08.86
and said, we need help
but we want to help ourselves.
00:26:08.90\00:26:12.93
What can we do with
you to fix the situations
00:26:12.97\00:26:16.30
so we can have housing?
00:26:16.34\00:26:17.81
And so very generous
people back in my country,
00:26:17.84\00:26:21.34
they raised some money
00:26:21.38\00:26:22.78
and we were able to
provide housing kits.
00:26:22.81\00:26:25.85
And one representative
from every single family came
00:26:25.88\00:26:30.49
and they worked
and they had to do
00:26:30.52\00:26:32.29
a minimum hours of work.
00:26:32.32\00:26:34.79
And for that, they
would get a housing kit.
00:26:34.82\00:26:37.33
It was valued at $220
and it had some lumber,
00:26:37.36\00:26:39.83
and some nails, and a hammer,
and a few bits and pieces,
00:26:39.86\00:26:42.66
and some iron for the roof.
00:26:42.70\00:26:44.40
And they could
rebuild their lives again
00:26:44.43\00:26:46.63
and have a
place to sleep safely.
00:26:46.67\00:26:49.07
And so these
ladies came to work.
00:26:49.10\00:26:51.57
Now this grandma came alone.
00:26:51.61\00:26:53.48
She's pretty cute, hey?
00:26:53.51\00:26:56.24
She has no teeth.
00:26:56.28\00:26:59.45
And she, you know, a hoe, right?
00:26:59.48\00:27:02.55
You know, for digging,
00:27:02.58\00:27:03.92
you know what I'm talking about?
00:27:03.95\00:27:05.65
She can hoe a
quarter acre a day.
00:27:05.69\00:27:08.79
She is 64, 65 years old.
00:27:08.82\00:27:11.46
She said to me, "I
have just my children,
00:27:11.49\00:27:16.10
my grand children.
00:27:16.13\00:27:17.47
There is no one
else to look after them.
00:27:17.50\00:27:19.80
I am fit and
strong, but I have no home.
00:27:19.83\00:27:22.24
You must help me."
00:27:22.27\00:27:24.07
Anyway, I said,
"Yeah, no worries.
00:27:24.11\00:27:25.61
We'll get you started over here.
00:27:25.64\00:27:28.14
I said, "Do you mind if
I take your photograph?"
00:27:28.18\00:27:30.51
And she's trying to smile,
00:27:30.55\00:27:32.11
but then she's
trying to not smile,
00:27:32.15\00:27:33.48
she's got no teeth.
00:27:33.52\00:27:34.85
It was a little
embarrassing moment for her
00:27:34.88\00:27:36.58
and I was trying not to
laugh, 'cause I'm just human.
00:27:36.62\00:27:40.49
Stop laughing.
00:27:40.52\00:27:43.26
And, I said, "Do you mind
00:27:43.29\00:27:47.40
if I put your
photo on Facebook?"
00:27:47.43\00:27:49.16
And she thought I said
you've got a face like a book.
00:27:49.20\00:27:52.13
But anyway, it was
okay, it was okay, you know,
00:27:52.17\00:27:55.94
she worked and she
worked hard and she got...
00:27:55.97\00:27:58.74
There was another lady
00:27:58.77\00:28:00.11
and her husband was working away
00:28:00.14\00:28:02.81
and the typhoon had struck
00:28:02.84\00:28:04.18
and destroyed their possessions,
00:28:04.21\00:28:05.55
and she had some
children and they were sick,
00:28:05.58\00:28:07.68
and she had no one
and she was struggling.
00:28:07.72\00:28:09.98
And she said, "I can't come.
00:28:10.02\00:28:11.92
I've got to look
after my sick children."
00:28:11.95\00:28:14.66
We said, "That's ok."
00:28:14.69\00:28:16.02
And she had this buffalo
and so buffalo came to work
00:28:16.06\00:28:19.29
for five days in place of her.
00:28:19.33\00:28:21.63
And we reckoned the
buffalo would plough
00:28:21.66\00:28:23.53
faster than her anyway.
00:28:23.57\00:28:25.37
And so, you know, but the deal
was that they help themselves.
00:28:25.40\00:28:29.84
And here was a community,
they wanted to help themselves
00:28:29.87\00:28:32.34
to get out of poverty.
00:28:32.37\00:28:34.18
And the day when
the lumber arrived
00:28:34.21\00:28:35.81
and the building
materials arrived,
00:28:35.84\00:28:37.21
they were so happy
because they had done
00:28:37.25\00:28:39.58
the work themselves.
00:28:39.61\00:28:41.45
We had just
provided the equipment.
00:28:41.48\00:28:44.09
And our volunteer
program, you may not know it,
00:28:44.12\00:28:46.62
but you need to know,
00:28:46.65\00:28:47.99
and I'll share
with you at the end.
00:28:48.02\00:28:49.36
But we have an
amazing volunteer program.
00:28:49.39\00:28:51.29
And there were
so many volunteers
00:28:51.33\00:28:52.96
that came from Australia.
00:28:52.99\00:28:54.73
Sorry, there was none from US
but we're going to change that.
00:28:54.76\00:28:57.70
They came over and help them
00:28:57.73\00:29:00.94
and they built with their hands.
00:29:00.97\00:29:05.17
The gospel of the
dirt under the fingernails,
00:29:05.21\00:29:08.58
doing some thing physical
as well as just the preaching,
00:29:08.61\00:29:14.58
they go together.
00:29:14.62\00:29:16.55
And, you know, Hannah,
00:29:16.58\00:29:19.65
the Muslim lady
crossing the river,
00:29:19.69\00:29:22.26
she came back.
00:29:22.29\00:29:23.63
She was the only
lady that came back.
00:29:23.66\00:29:26.19
And she said, "Can I
please work a little longer.
00:29:26.23\00:29:29.93
I want a house
with a cement floor."
00:29:29.96\00:29:33.07
And so she worked an extra
week for two bags of cement.
00:29:33.10\00:29:37.21
And she mixed the
cement with some mud
00:29:37.24\00:29:39.34
and she's the only
lady in that community today
00:29:39.37\00:29:41.94
that has a concrete floor.
00:29:41.98\00:29:45.21
You know, she has such a
desire and a hunger for truth.
00:29:45.25\00:29:51.85
She no longer
wears the hair covering
00:29:52.82\00:29:57.49
and she has found
her faith, a new faith.
00:29:57.53\00:30:01.83
We need you.
00:30:01.86\00:30:04.20
There is a difference
between needing and wanting
00:30:04.23\00:30:06.53
and I know you understand that.
00:30:06.57\00:30:08.30
So let me clarify, we
need you, not we want you.
00:30:08.34\00:30:14.04
There is a difference.
00:30:14.08\00:30:17.25
We just came the
other day, my wife and I,
00:30:17.28\00:30:20.05
to this beautiful part
of the US from Thailand.
00:30:20.08\00:30:24.85
We were there with a
group of 74 volunteers
00:30:24.89\00:30:27.96
that had given up
their school holidays to come
00:30:27.99\00:30:30.13
and work among some
of the poorest people
00:30:30.16\00:30:32.69
in that part of the world.
00:30:32.73\00:30:34.50
People from Burma that
have fled ethnic cleansing
00:30:34.53\00:30:38.53
to come across to
live in refugee camps,
00:30:38.57\00:30:41.54
to live in no man's land
00:30:41.57\00:30:43.71
or to sneak across
the border into Thailand,
00:30:43.74\00:30:48.58
and we worked at a
number of different sites.
00:30:48.61\00:30:50.65
But this is a
place where we focus
00:30:50.68\00:30:52.61
some of the attention
00:30:52.65\00:30:54.42
and some of the
finances that we have.
00:30:54.45\00:30:57.89
I'm going to read to you
00:30:57.92\00:30:59.25
because I don't
want to say this wrong.
00:30:59.29\00:31:01.36
I'm going to
read to you a letter
00:31:01.39\00:31:02.72
that I received
from a girl in this area.
00:31:02.76\00:31:07.40
My name is Muttu,
I'm just a young girl
00:31:07.43\00:31:10.30
who has come from
Karen State in Burma.
00:31:10.33\00:31:13.23
I grew up in a small village
along the Thai-Burma border,
00:31:13.27\00:31:16.30
where the Karen and
the Burmese soldiers
00:31:16.34\00:31:18.01
always fight.
00:31:18.04\00:31:19.41
My parents are
just poor farmers,
00:31:19.44\00:31:22.21
like me, they want
to live in peace too.
00:31:22.24\00:31:25.55
For many years,
whenever there was a battle,
00:31:25.58\00:31:27.18
they escaped
together to a safe place.
00:31:27.22\00:31:29.98
After I was born,
their escape became slow
00:31:30.02\00:31:31.95
as they had to
carry me with them.
00:31:31.99\00:31:33.62
It was very difficult.
00:31:33.66\00:31:35.32
They had to hide themselves
from Burmese soldiers,
00:31:35.36\00:31:38.06
many times was
going without food,
00:31:38.09\00:31:40.60
nothing to eat for days.
00:31:40.63\00:31:42.80
It was a great risk for
me and for them as well.
00:31:42.83\00:31:46.13
They knew that I
would be shot or killed.
00:31:46.17\00:31:48.50
There were bombs,
there were mortars,
00:31:48.54\00:31:50.17
and there were
shells from the soldiers.
00:31:50.21\00:31:53.61
Because I am a girl, my
parents were very concerned
00:31:53.64\00:31:56.98
about my safety.
00:31:57.01\00:31:58.61
I remember one night
00:31:58.65\00:31:59.98
that we had
escaped from the soldiers,
00:32:00.02\00:32:01.35
we were hiding in the jungle,
00:32:01.38\00:32:02.72
my parents just
hugged me and cried.
00:32:02.75\00:32:05.39
They talked about
their concern for me.
00:32:05.42\00:32:06.96
They thought I was asleep.
So I heard all that they said.
00:32:06.99\00:32:10.99
They said they have to
find a safe place for me.
00:32:11.03\00:32:15.26
A place where
there was no soldiers.
00:32:15.30\00:32:18.07
They took our
animals, they stole our crops,
00:32:18.10\00:32:19.93
they raped and
killed my friends.
00:32:19.97\00:32:21.47
All I wanted to
do was go to school
00:32:21.50\00:32:22.97
and live in peace.
00:32:23.00\00:32:27.01
Muttu is like many thousands
of girls and boys in this area
00:32:27.04\00:32:32.58
that live and struggle.
00:32:32.61\00:32:35.25
Muttu is a young girl.
00:32:35.28\00:32:37.59
Muttu has had to live
through things that no child
00:32:37.62\00:32:40.96
should ever have to live.
00:32:40.99\00:32:43.16
The pain and
expression of her face
00:32:43.19\00:32:46.76
is representative of the
life and the narrow choices
00:32:46.80\00:32:50.50
that her family
were forced into.
00:32:50.53\00:32:55.07
Look what the wise man said.
00:32:55.10\00:32:57.11
"Speak up for those who
cannot speak for themselves
00:32:57.14\00:33:01.01
for the rights of
all who are destitute.
00:33:01.04\00:33:02.64
Speak up and judge fairly.
00:33:02.68\00:33:04.01
Defend the rights of the poor."
00:33:04.05\00:33:05.71
So I'm not appealing to you,
00:33:05.75\00:33:08.08
I'm not going to appeal to you
00:33:08.12\00:33:13.46
to suddenly jump up and
speak up for these people.
00:33:13.49\00:33:17.26
But I want to say
solemnly and declare to you
00:33:17.29\00:33:21.13
that if you leave
this place and speak up,
00:33:21.16\00:33:26.40
God will be with you
and bless you as you do.
00:33:26.43\00:33:29.50
There are thousands of people
that you can speak up for.
00:33:29.54\00:33:34.98
We need a new
William Wilberforce.
00:33:35.01\00:33:39.11
We need someone.
00:33:39.15\00:33:40.62
Are we or are we
not the church of God.
00:33:40.65\00:33:43.92
Are we? Yes. Amen.
00:33:43.95\00:33:46.76
We are.
00:33:46.79\00:33:49.16
Then as a church of God,
00:33:49.19\00:33:50.53
we can do
something for these people
00:33:50.56\00:33:52.66
because the
scripture tells us, speak up.
00:33:52.69\00:33:55.63
Will we speak up?
00:33:55.66\00:33:58.53
This boy came, you can
see, he is in pretty bad shape.
00:33:58.57\00:34:02.30
Look at this.
00:34:05.94\00:34:07.28
Ellen White has to say,
"Orphans may be ragged."
00:34:07.31\00:34:09.78
Actually, before I say this,
00:34:09.81\00:34:11.15
I want to tell
you something else.
00:34:11.18\00:34:13.42
Where I come from,
she is not so popular.
00:34:13.45\00:34:17.49
But where I come
from, she is very popular.
00:34:17.52\00:34:19.92
Amen.
00:34:19.95\00:34:21.36
"Orphans may be ragged, uncouth,
00:34:21.39\00:34:22.76
and seemingly in
every way unattractive,
00:34:22.79\00:34:24.76
but they are bought with a price
00:34:24.79\00:34:26.70
and are just as
precious in the sight of God
00:34:26.73\00:34:28.53
as our own little ones.
00:34:28.56\00:34:30.20
They are God's property for whom
00:34:30.23\00:34:31.57
Christians' are responsible."
00:34:31.60\00:34:32.93
Put your hand up if
you are a Christian.
00:34:32.97\00:34:35.60
Then you are responsible.
00:34:35.64\00:34:38.04
Put it down if you
don't want to be responsible.
00:34:38.07\00:34:41.88
Thank you.
00:34:41.91\00:34:43.24
I'm just
checking who is listening.
00:34:44.25\00:34:47.68
These are God's,
our responsibility.
00:34:47.72\00:34:52.35
Six weeks later,
the same boy, six weeks,
00:34:52.39\00:34:57.89
transforming
lives, restoring dignity,
00:34:57.93\00:35:01.10
bringing hope, and
bringing Jesus Christ
00:35:01.13\00:35:03.70
into their lives in a
very physical way initially,
00:35:03.73\00:35:07.10
and in a personal
way introducing them
00:35:07.14\00:35:09.67
to a Father that
will never let them down.
00:35:09.70\00:35:14.74
There are children there
today that live behind barbwire.
00:35:14.78\00:35:18.25
I can assure you, I
was there the other day,
00:35:18.28\00:35:19.91
they're still there.
00:35:19.95\00:35:21.28
Two hundred and twenty thousand
people in refugee camps,
00:35:21.32\00:35:23.72
nine camps along the border,
00:35:23.75\00:35:25.32
still living
behind barbwire today,
00:35:25.35\00:35:29.29
still washing like
this, still queuing up
00:35:29.32\00:35:32.89
to get their water like this.
00:35:32.93\00:35:34.83
No turn on the
nice tap and out comes
00:35:34.86\00:35:36.93
the hot water from the faucet.
00:35:36.97\00:35:39.70
You just go there
and join the queue.
00:35:39.73\00:35:41.60
Let me tell you about
some of the work we do
00:35:45.07\00:35:46.41
in the schools in this area.
00:35:46.44\00:35:48.34
This is the most
modern device from Apple.
00:35:48.38\00:35:52.38
It is the new stone tablet.
00:35:52.41\00:35:54.15
And they don't use a stylus pen,
00:35:58.19\00:36:00.22
they use a rock pencil.
00:36:00.26\00:36:01.89
This is innovation from Burma.
00:36:01.92\00:36:06.13
But this is it.
00:36:06.16\00:36:08.16
They have nothing.
00:36:08.20\00:36:10.13
My friend in pink,
Kuty, has devoted her life
00:36:10.17\00:36:15.84
to serving the poorest people
on earth at incredible risk.
00:36:15.87\00:36:19.57
Her brother was
caught, tortured, and murdered
00:36:19.61\00:36:21.81
by the soldiers
on the other side
00:36:21.84\00:36:23.31
because he desired to share
Jesus Christ in a community
00:36:23.35\00:36:26.48
where it was dangerous.
00:36:26.51\00:36:28.68
And for that,
they took his life.
00:36:28.72\00:36:31.25
These children are amongst
00:36:31.29\00:36:32.62
the poorest
children in the world.
00:36:32.65\00:36:35.99
They will walk 10 days
to any health services.
00:36:36.02\00:36:40.80
There is no vaccination
program in their community,
00:36:40.83\00:36:44.13
but there are land
mines to remind them
00:36:44.17\00:36:46.43
of the fragility of their life.
00:36:46.47\00:36:49.87
This is one of
their small schools
00:36:49.90\00:36:52.31
that we are supporting
with Adventist teachers
00:36:52.34\00:36:54.94
so they can hear
a wonderful message
00:36:54.98\00:36:57.08
of hope in a
place of hopelessness.
00:36:57.11\00:37:01.98
This young girl, 12 years old
00:37:02.02\00:37:03.39
who should be in school
is carrying a 25 liter...
00:37:03.42\00:37:07.29
I don't know how
many gallons that is,
00:37:07.32\00:37:08.66
divide it by 4 and
a bit, 25 kilograms
00:37:08.69\00:37:12.86
of water on a head strap,
00:37:12.89\00:37:14.80
up in an
embankment, out of a river.
00:37:14.83\00:37:16.46
She doesn't go to
school. She is a water carrier.
00:37:16.50\00:37:19.20
Will we speak up for
the rights of this girl
00:37:19.23\00:37:21.87
as we are
called to in scripture?
00:37:21.90\00:37:25.57
In my country, in the
back page of the newspaper
00:37:25.61\00:37:28.01
is always the sport.
00:37:28.04\00:37:29.91
And they use words like
hero if someone can kick a ball
00:37:29.94\00:37:32.78
from here to the end of
the stage there, you know.
00:37:32.81\00:37:35.52
These are my heroes.
00:37:35.55\00:37:37.29
These are the people
that sacrifice their life
00:37:37.32\00:37:39.95
at incredible risk
to work in communities
00:37:39.99\00:37:42.52
where there is such poverty.
00:37:42.56\00:37:45.09
But there is a
certain richness that they see
00:37:45.13\00:37:48.10
because they see a
rich and fertile land
00:37:48.13\00:37:50.63
for the gospel
seed to grow into life.
00:37:50.67\00:37:53.97
And they work in these places
00:37:54.00\00:37:55.90
because they see that
Buddhism has lost its appeal.
00:37:55.94\00:37:59.54
It is failing people
00:37:59.57\00:38:01.24
and Christianity gives
them something to hope.
00:38:01.28\00:38:03.95
And this young
girl came to me one day,
00:38:03.98\00:38:05.48
her name is Perry.
00:38:05.51\00:38:06.85
And Perry said, "Dave,
please, I need you to support."
00:38:06.88\00:38:11.55
She was going through college.
00:38:11.59\00:38:15.02
Her father had died.
00:38:15.06\00:38:16.73
His dying wish was
finish your studies
00:38:16.76\00:38:19.56
and go back to the
community where you came from
00:38:19.59\00:38:23.00
where we are and
bring Jesus back with you.
00:38:23.03\00:38:26.07
And so she went and she was just
00:38:26.10\00:38:28.20
a year and a half
away from finishing college
00:38:28.24\00:38:30.17
when her father died and
she has got her scholarship
00:38:30.21\00:38:35.31
and she will go back to
share Christ in this community.
00:38:35.34\00:38:39.11
She and others like her,
00:38:39.15\00:38:41.82
they will forego the opportunity
00:38:41.85\00:38:43.62
to come to a wealthy nation
where they'll earn big money,
00:38:43.65\00:38:47.36
and for 30 dollars a
month, they will work
00:38:47.39\00:38:49.39
in some other most
remote desolate areas in danger
00:38:49.42\00:38:53.50
because they believe strongly
00:38:53.53\00:38:55.06
in the cause
that we are here for,
00:38:55.10\00:38:56.80
the great
commission in the gospel
00:38:56.83\00:38:58.50
because they want
to see it being spread
00:38:58.53\00:39:00.34
amongst those of the
poorest nations on earth.
00:39:00.37\00:39:03.91
30 dollars a month
will be her salary.
00:39:03.94\00:39:07.01
How many earn that in an hour.
00:39:07.04\00:39:09.91
Well, you can afford to
sponsor people like that.
00:39:09.94\00:39:11.65
You come and see me later.
00:39:11.68\00:39:13.21
Chained and alone.
00:39:15.48\00:39:18.29
I want to talk about
something that's very serious.
00:39:20.52\00:39:25.43
I started by telling you
how many numbers of children.
00:39:25.46\00:39:28.53
Just to put that in perspective,
00:39:28.56\00:39:30.47
that's 3,300
more children each day
00:39:30.50\00:39:37.44
that are
trafficked against their will.
00:39:37.47\00:39:44.25
In my country and
yours, you can buy
00:39:44.28\00:39:47.52
for between $25 and
$75 a line, a packet,
00:39:47.55\00:39:52.15
whatever you call
it, a speed, coke, ice,
00:39:52.19\00:39:54.79
you call it what you
want, we call it what we want.
00:39:54.82\00:39:57.53
They all have their
colloquial names anyway.
00:39:57.56\00:39:59.89
Depending on the purity
00:39:59.93\00:40:01.26
and depending on the
availability $20-$75.
00:40:01.30\00:40:04.80
You can buy a gun in
Africa between $1 and $15
00:40:04.83\00:40:07.54
and ammunition so plentiful,
00:40:07.57\00:40:08.90
they'll give it to you for free.
00:40:08.94\00:40:10.94
But you can sell
a girl every day,
00:40:10.97\00:40:16.75
20 times a day, every
week, every month, every year,
00:40:16.78\00:40:21.18
and the average girl in Asia
that's chained and behind bars
00:40:21.22\00:40:24.12
and is being forced
to work as prostitute
00:40:24.15\00:40:26.12
from the age of four and
nine and twelve and sixteen
00:40:26.15\00:40:29.42
is 78,000 dollars a year.
00:40:29.46\00:40:32.59
And when we run a rescue program
00:40:32.63\00:40:34.30
that frees twelve
or thirteen girls,
00:40:34.33\00:40:36.67
we've just cost
someone a million dollars
00:40:36.70\00:40:39.10
that keeps those girls.
00:40:39.13\00:40:40.87
And that's why
there is some danger
00:40:40.90\00:40:42.80
in the work that we do.
00:40:42.84\00:40:45.74
Just two years
ago, we lost two staff.
00:40:45.77\00:40:48.14
They were shot and killed
00:40:48.18\00:40:49.51
because we are
able to rescue someone.
00:40:49.54\00:40:52.48
Let's see what Romans has to say
00:40:52.51\00:40:54.82
before I prepare for
the next part of this talk.
00:40:54.85\00:40:57.79
"Love your
neighbors as yourself."
00:40:57.82\00:40:59.35
Are you loving?
00:40:59.39\00:41:00.96
Are you loving the man
that stands outside the Sheraton
00:41:00.99\00:41:03.19
that says "Happy New Year"?
00:41:03.22\00:41:06.39
If you love others, you
will never do them wrong,
00:41:06.43\00:41:09.80
"to love, then, is
to obey the whole law."
00:41:09.83\00:41:13.13
You must do this
because you know that
00:41:13.17\00:41:15.00
the time has come for
you to wake from your sleep.
00:41:15.04\00:41:19.37
You're not sleeping out
here, are you, after lunch?
00:41:19.41\00:41:23.41
I hope you only had
lettuce, nothing stodgy.
00:41:23.45\00:41:27.12
"For the moment when we
will be saved is closer now than
00:41:27.15\00:41:29.58
when we first believed,
the night is nearly over,
00:41:29.62\00:41:32.75
day is almost here."
00:41:32.79\00:41:35.66
"The night is nearly
over and day is almost here,"
00:41:35.69\00:41:38.49
was written two millennia ago.
00:41:38.53\00:41:41.76
How much closer now than
00:41:41.80\00:41:43.73
when Paul wrote
this to the Romans.
00:41:43.77\00:41:47.24
I work in places where tribes
00:41:47.27\00:41:49.94
have yet to
hear of Jesus Christ.
00:41:49.97\00:41:52.57
But I can assure you
00:41:52.61\00:41:54.38
that the human
traffickers are already there.
00:41:54.41\00:41:58.28
What's going first?
00:41:58.31\00:42:01.38
The people who will
pimp and prostitute the girls
00:42:01.42\00:42:03.65
or the gospel of
Jesus Christ, dare I say.
00:42:03.69\00:42:08.56
You know the answer.
00:42:08.59\00:42:10.53
"Let us stop doing the things
that belonged to the dark.
00:42:10.56\00:42:13.23
Let us take our weapons
for fighting in the light.
00:42:13.26\00:42:15.83
Let us conduct
ourselves properly as people
00:42:15.86\00:42:17.83
who live in the
light of the day,
00:42:17.87\00:42:20.47
no orgies or drunkenness,
no fighting or jealousy
00:42:20.50\00:42:24.57
but take up the
weapons of the Lord."
00:42:24.61\00:42:27.34
I'm just going to back there.
00:42:27.38\00:42:29.08
Let us live like people
00:42:29.11\00:42:30.45
who live in the
light of the day.
00:42:30.48\00:42:32.78
I want to address that
subject, not theologically.
00:42:32.81\00:42:37.49
I'm not very good at theology.
00:42:37.52\00:42:41.02
There are a number
of mitigating factors
00:42:41.06\00:42:44.59
that keep children enslaved.
00:42:44.63\00:42:48.66
One of them is pornography.
00:42:48.70\00:42:50.67
Pornography is
keeping girls chained.
00:42:52.97\00:42:58.74
In my country, I'm sure the law
00:42:58.77\00:43:01.34
is very similar to your country.
00:43:01.38\00:43:03.71
If I see a crime
being perpetrated
00:43:03.75\00:43:06.92
and if I'm walking
along the street here
00:43:06.95\00:43:08.38
and I see a girl
being raped in the park
00:43:08.42\00:43:10.09
and do nothing about it, I
don't know what your law says
00:43:10.12\00:43:12.55
but in my country,
00:43:12.59\00:43:14.36
I'm in trouble
because I kept quiet.
00:43:14.39\00:43:18.99
But to view, online
or in magazine form,
00:43:19.03\00:43:24.53
content that continues
the brutalization and torture,
00:43:24.57\00:43:30.37
degradation of life,
00:43:30.41\00:43:32.07
and the
ultimate death of a child
00:43:32.11\00:43:34.84
who becomes a
women, who smiles on cue
00:43:34.88\00:43:37.45
because she knows what
will happen if she doesn't,
00:43:37.48\00:43:39.68
because she has faced
the pain of torture before,
00:43:39.71\00:43:43.49
and as one after
another, after another
00:43:43.52\00:43:47.52
drop off and die,
this is voyeuristic murder.
00:43:47.56\00:43:52.39
It's not pornography.
00:43:52.43\00:43:54.00
God sees, we don't need to.
00:43:54.03\00:43:58.80
Let us live like
it's the light of the day.
00:43:58.83\00:44:03.51
"No orgies or drunkenness,
no immorality or indecency,
00:44:03.54\00:44:06.14
no fighting or
jealousy but take up the weapons
00:44:06.17\00:44:08.64
of the Lord Jesus Christ
00:44:08.68\00:44:10.35
and stop paying
attention to your sinful nature
00:44:10.38\00:44:12.78
and satisfying its desires."
00:44:12.81\00:44:16.79
A clear holy calling, a
clear message from Isaiah,
00:44:16.82\00:44:23.43
a clear message from Solomon,
00:44:23.46\00:44:26.76
speak up, fight, defend,
00:44:26.80\00:44:32.40
learn to do good, was
that first Bible verse.
00:44:32.43\00:44:35.50
Who is still learning?
00:44:35.54\00:44:37.64
I'm glad there are
more honest people.
00:44:37.67\00:44:39.01
And... This young girl.
00:44:39.04\00:44:44.18
It is not the place to
tell you what happened to her,
00:44:44.21\00:44:45.95
but I can assure you
this, in the couple of years
00:44:45.98\00:44:49.42
that she has been in our care,
00:44:49.45\00:44:50.95
she learnt
something fundamental,
00:44:50.99\00:44:54.32
forgiveness.
00:44:54.36\00:44:57.39
She learnt to forgive
the man that abused her,
00:44:57.43\00:45:01.33
that enslaved her, and
it brought her freedom.
00:45:01.36\00:45:05.37
Programs like this help
in the cause of emancipation
00:45:05.40\00:45:10.84
to really bring freedom.
00:45:10.87\00:45:14.94
Children are not for sale.
00:45:14.98\00:45:16.58
I'm going to read this
verse and I'm just going to ask
00:45:19.98\00:45:22.68
while I'm reading
it, if my wife comes out
00:45:22.72\00:45:24.32
because she is going to
share something with you.
00:45:24.35\00:45:26.15
"The greatest want of
the world is the want of men.
00:45:26.19\00:45:29.16
Men, who will not
be bought and sold."
00:45:29.19\00:45:30.93
You know this verse?
You know this passage?
00:45:30.96\00:45:33.46
Mark it down.
00:45:36.26\00:45:37.97
"Men who will not
be bought or sold,
00:45:38.00\00:45:39.47
men who in their inmost
souls are true and honest,
00:45:39.50\00:45:42.50
men who do not fear to
call sin by its right name,
00:45:42.54\00:45:45.91
men whose
conscience is as true to duty
00:45:45.94\00:45:48.38
as the needle to the
pole, men who will stand
00:45:48.41\00:45:51.41
for the right
though the heavens fall."
00:45:51.45\00:45:56.28
Is there a good man out there?
00:45:56.32\00:46:00.19
Only one.
00:46:00.22\00:46:02.29
Is there a good man out there?
00:46:07.23\00:46:08.93
Amen.
00:46:08.96\00:46:11.40
Because we need them.
00:46:11.43\00:46:14.30
We don't want
them, we need them.
00:46:14.34\00:46:17.91
Men, I am appealing to you.
00:46:17.94\00:46:21.61
You set your
moral compass straight
00:46:21.64\00:46:24.21
and you stand up for the rights,
00:46:24.25\00:46:26.72
as a father, as a male,
00:46:26.75\00:46:30.85
as a head of a spiritual family,
00:46:30.89\00:46:33.32
you stand up for
the rights of the poor.
00:46:33.36\00:46:37.23
That is a gospel appeal.
00:46:37.26\00:46:39.49
If my wife can just come out
00:46:41.66\00:46:43.06
and she's going to
share a testimony with us.
00:46:43.10\00:46:46.33
We have a program in the
Philippines, Blessed Home.
00:46:46.37\00:46:50.74
It's where we care
for many of these victims
00:46:50.77\00:46:53.88
of sexual abuse and violence.
00:46:53.91\00:46:56.68
And it's a difficult task.
00:46:58.48\00:47:03.49
I'm going to let my
wife introduce herself.
00:47:03.52\00:47:05.69
Come on up here,
Esther. They're not so scary.
00:47:05.72\00:47:08.12
It's all right.
00:47:08.16\00:47:09.72
They've eaten lunch
already, they won't eat you.
00:47:09.76\00:47:12.23
My name is Esther.
00:47:15.26\00:47:17.83
When I was 19, I was trafficked
00:47:17.87\00:47:21.70
and forced into prostitution.
00:47:21.74\00:47:27.04
I was forced by
some of the contraband
00:47:27.08\00:47:29.18
from the Philippines to Japan.
00:47:29.21\00:47:33.62
Upon arrival, I was
taken into a secret place
00:47:33.65\00:47:37.39
by the Japanese
mafia known as the Yakuza.
00:47:37.42\00:47:41.62
How did this happen?
00:47:43.06\00:47:47.46
As a child, I
grew up in slum area.
00:47:47.50\00:47:50.67
We had no proper
kitchen, we cook on fire.
00:47:50.70\00:47:54.30
We had no proper toilet.
00:47:54.34\00:47:56.84
The whole
neighborhood shares one toilet.
00:47:56.87\00:48:00.08
We had no running water.
00:48:00.11\00:48:01.64
We had to fetch water from afar.
00:48:01.68\00:48:04.85
We were always hungry.
00:48:04.88\00:48:08.08
One night, there
was nothing to eat,
00:48:08.12\00:48:11.89
and I was starving and
I couldn't go to sleep.
00:48:11.92\00:48:15.52
So I had to chew some cardboard.
00:48:15.56\00:48:18.46
It was really tough.
00:48:18.49\00:48:20.36
My parents
worshipped the spirits.
00:48:22.76\00:48:26.37
And one day my
dad became Christian
00:48:26.40\00:48:29.57
and since then,
00:48:29.60\00:48:31.07
they fought a
lot about religion.
00:48:31.11\00:48:35.04
It got so bad that
they had to split up.
00:48:35.08\00:48:38.85
So my siblings and I
were taken into rural area
00:48:38.88\00:48:43.15
to live in a small
thatch hut all by ourselves.
00:48:43.18\00:48:47.96
I am the eldest and I had
five other younger siblings.
00:48:50.46\00:48:55.93
I was only twelve and
our youngest was only two.
00:48:55.96\00:48:59.77
Just imagine,
looking after young children
00:48:59.80\00:49:03.27
when I was only a kid myself.
00:49:03.30\00:49:06.61
My mom was not
allowed to visit us
00:49:06.64\00:49:09.78
and our dad only
checked us on the weekends.
00:49:09.81\00:49:13.48
During this time, my
very own dad abused me.
00:49:13.52\00:49:20.16
I was too scared
to talk to anyone
00:49:20.96\00:49:23.79
because he used to beat us up.
00:49:23.83\00:49:27.03
Our situation became
worse when my dad lost his job
00:49:27.06\00:49:33.20
and we were forced to be
put into different places
00:49:33.23\00:49:37.47
away from each other,
00:49:37.51\00:49:40.71
forced to work in
return for food and shelter.
00:49:40.74\00:49:45.21
When I was 18, I was recruited
to work as a maid in Manila.
00:49:48.32\00:49:54.59
When I was exploited for
few months without any pay,
00:49:57.33\00:50:02.46
which left me
homeless with no money,
00:50:02.50\00:50:06.40
I felt so vulnerable
just like so many other girls,
00:50:06.43\00:50:13.04
who are far away
from home with no money,
00:50:13.07\00:50:18.35
forced with narrow
choices just like what I did.
00:50:18.38\00:50:25.05
I took the risk
to apply for a job
00:50:25.09\00:50:30.06
as a singer in
Japan only to find out
00:50:30.09\00:50:34.46
that they were
trapped in prostitution.
00:50:34.50\00:50:38.03
Fortunately, for me,
00:50:38.07\00:50:39.87
I was able to escape the Yakuza.
00:50:39.90\00:50:42.97
But with no
money and no passport,
00:50:43.00\00:50:46.78
I was eventually
caught, detained, put in a cell,
00:50:46.81\00:50:53.15
and deported back
to the Philippines.
00:50:53.18\00:50:56.52
But God is good.
00:50:56.55\00:50:59.39
Amazing circumstances
happened in my life
00:50:59.42\00:51:03.02
that brought me to
Australia to start a new life.
00:51:03.06\00:51:08.13
I was able to finish my studies
and I became an accountant.
00:51:08.16\00:51:13.67
I had my own business
and looked after my clients
00:51:13.70\00:51:17.61
with their financial affairs.
00:51:17.64\00:51:20.68
And one day, I had a client,
I used to go their home office
00:51:20.71\00:51:26.05
and I noticed, wow,
they have a loving family.
00:51:26.08\00:51:29.95
And then I found out
that they were Christians.
00:51:29.98\00:51:33.25
As we did Bible
studies, I found out that
00:51:33.29\00:51:37.23
they go to church on a Saturday.
00:51:37.26\00:51:40.16
That was just so weird.
00:51:40.20\00:51:43.20
But in 2010, I was baptized
in Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:51:43.23\00:51:49.34
in Salisbury,
Brisbane, Australia.
00:51:49.37\00:51:55.44
Same year, I went
to the Philippines,
00:51:55.48\00:51:58.05
we had a family reunion.
00:51:58.08\00:52:00.52
And I spoke to my
dad, And I said "Dad...
00:52:00.55\00:52:04.95
What Jesus did
for me at the cross.
00:52:09.66\00:52:12.66
I forgive you."
00:52:12.69\00:52:16.00
It was very, very
difficult for me to do that
00:52:16.03\00:52:18.43
without Gods help.
00:52:18.47\00:52:22.97
And so I dedicated my life
00:52:23.00\00:52:29.04
and do His work,
help this ministry,
00:52:29.08\00:52:35.38
and joined my husband
to help the poor children,
00:52:35.42\00:52:38.69
the destitute children.
00:52:38.72\00:52:41.39
So my question is,
00:52:41.42\00:52:45.59
being a
Christian, what would you do?
00:52:45.63\00:52:49.13
It's about time to put
your faith into action.
00:52:49.16\00:52:54.04
Thank you.
00:52:57.77\00:52:59.67
The lady in
yellow on the screen,
00:53:02.54\00:53:05.48
she is coming,
I've seen down here.
00:53:05.51\00:53:07.85
If we can just
have that. There we go.
00:53:07.88\00:53:09.92
Her name is Psalm.
00:53:09.95\00:53:12.25
Psalm came to one of
our medical programs,
00:53:12.29\00:53:15.59
she wasn't sick and
neither were her children.
00:53:15.62\00:53:19.26
But she had a bigger problem.
00:53:19.29\00:53:22.23
Psalm, that night,
was to be trafficked
00:53:22.26\00:53:26.27
to work in
Malaysia as a prostitute.
00:53:26.30\00:53:30.14
And she came to see if
we could take her children.
00:53:30.17\00:53:34.48
How the story
unfolded? Let me back up.
00:53:34.51\00:53:37.91
When Psalm was this pregnant
00:53:37.95\00:53:41.58
with a little fellow
just there in front of her,
00:53:41.62\00:53:45.45
her then drunken husband
taken a big bladed machete
00:53:45.49\00:53:49.12
and decided that he was
going to terminate the pregnancy
00:53:49.16\00:53:52.16
right there right then
with once swipe to her abdomen.
00:53:52.19\00:53:56.70
She put her hand to
protect the unborn child
00:53:56.73\00:53:59.23
and took the force of
that blade across her arm,
00:53:59.27\00:54:02.10
leaving her in need of
surgery and hospitalization.
00:54:02.14\00:54:07.24
She had no money,
useless husband ran off,
00:54:07.28\00:54:13.75
and she was left alone.
00:54:13.78\00:54:18.42
She borrowed $50 at 30
percent interest per month.
00:54:18.45\00:54:24.86
She is illiterate,
never been to school,
00:54:24.89\00:54:28.13
couldn't even write her
name, agreed to the terms
00:54:28.16\00:54:31.50
and conditions of a loan
00:54:31.53\00:54:33.20
that she had no idea
of its ramifications.
00:54:33.23\00:54:36.07
And within a short
period of time, unable to work
00:54:36.10\00:54:39.24
because of the loss
of murdering of the arm,
00:54:39.27\00:54:41.61
she found herself
with a debt close to $500.
00:54:41.64\00:54:46.72
She had a young baby and no one
00:54:49.18\00:54:53.59
and her other
kids to look after.
00:54:53.62\00:54:57.73
And so the one who
took advantage of her
00:54:57.76\00:55:03.23
and gave her the
loan with the same person
00:55:03.26\00:55:05.50
that had made her agree
00:55:05.53\00:55:09.24
that if she
couldn't pay the loan,
00:55:09.27\00:55:12.54
the children will
become his property to exploit.
00:55:12.57\00:55:16.64
She had begged him,
"Take me, not the children."
00:55:16.68\00:55:20.58
And that had brought
her to our medical clinic
00:55:20.62\00:55:24.15
in the suburbs
00:55:24.19\00:55:25.72
or the urban slums
of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
00:55:25.75\00:55:28.92
because that night,
00:55:28.96\00:55:30.33
she was leaving on
a plane to Malaysia
00:55:30.36\00:55:34.20
to work as a prostitute
to pay back that debt.
00:55:34.23\00:55:38.43
Reality was that she was
never going to come back.
00:55:38.47\00:55:41.20
She would never clear the
debt and she would die there.
00:55:41.24\00:55:44.74
And we would have her children.
00:55:44.77\00:55:46.91
There was a
volunteer team from Australia
00:55:46.94\00:55:50.05
and there was a
gentleman in that team
00:55:50.08\00:55:52.31
and he had heard the
story as it was interpreted
00:55:52.35\00:55:55.75
and he pulled out his
wallet and he counted his money.
00:55:55.78\00:56:01.62
I don't imagine what
it was that he was there
00:56:01.66\00:56:03.66
to buy at the end of
this trip the next day,
00:56:03.69\00:56:05.66
maybe he's gonna buy
himself a pair of jeans
00:56:05.69\00:56:07.53
and a cheap DVD, you
know, they built like a mall
00:56:07.56\00:56:09.90
over there for pretty cheap.
00:56:09.93\00:56:12.30
But he brought her
freedom that night for $900.
00:56:12.33\00:56:17.71
Good story, but
it doesn't end there,
00:56:17.74\00:56:22.54
$900 and she was free.
00:56:22.58\00:56:26.75
It seems to me that
00:56:26.78\00:56:30.92
this is a very
practical demonstration
00:56:30.95\00:56:32.82
of what was done on the cross.
00:56:32.85\00:56:36.26
Freedom, the
story doesn't end there
00:56:36.29\00:56:39.09
because, you see,
we needed someone.
00:56:39.13\00:56:41.70
We needed a staff
member and quickly,
00:56:41.73\00:56:44.67
we had just received 30 children
00:56:44.70\00:56:47.14
that we needed to care for,
00:56:47.17\00:56:49.60
they had been
victims of extreme poverty.
00:56:49.64\00:56:52.84
Here was a women
that had such tenacity
00:56:52.87\00:56:54.88
to help her children
00:56:54.91\00:56:56.24
that had gone to
extreme majors to try
00:56:56.28\00:56:58.05
and make sure her
children were cared for.
00:56:58.08\00:57:00.18
What a moral compass
00:57:00.22\00:57:01.55
she had set in
the right direction
00:57:01.58\00:57:03.28
and we took her to work with
us and we took her children.
00:57:03.32\00:57:07.52
And she got a small loan from us
00:57:07.56\00:57:10.39
that was not with interest.
00:57:10.43\00:57:13.19
And she started
a small tuck shop,
00:57:13.23\00:57:15.76
making and creating
and selling and making
00:57:15.80\00:57:18.33
some profit to
pay back her loan.
00:57:18.37\00:57:20.57
And at the same
time, she worked part time
00:57:20.60\00:57:23.34
caring for some other children
that we were looking after.
00:57:23.37\00:57:26.91
Six weeks later,
she asked this question,
00:57:26.94\00:57:31.48
a question that it's possible
that some of you may have
00:57:31.51\00:57:35.22
never asked
before in this context.
00:57:35.25\00:57:39.69
What must I do to be saved?
00:57:39.72\00:57:42.32
What must I do to be saved?
00:57:44.79\00:57:48.86
She's gone back
to her community,
00:57:48.90\00:57:51.13
she's gone back
to share Jesus' love.
00:57:51.17\00:57:56.40
What will you do?
00:57:56.44\00:57:58.71
I'm just finishing up, guys.
00:57:58.74\00:58:01.64
What would Jesus do?
00:58:01.68\00:58:03.98
What will you do?
00:58:04.01\00:58:05.48
Well, here's a
few things you do.
00:58:05.51\00:58:06.85
You can join a volunteer team,
you can join our mailing list,
00:58:06.88\00:58:09.85
you can like us on Facebook,
you can rescue a child,
00:58:09.88\00:58:12.25
you can donate or
you can come tonight
00:58:12.29\00:58:14.49
to booth 201 over there,
00:58:14.52\00:58:16.02
just go through the first door
and turn right in the expo hall
00:58:16.06\00:58:18.79
and you'll find us, booth
201 and come and talk to us.
00:58:18.83\00:58:23.23
On our website,
there's a little button.
00:58:23.26\00:58:24.93
It's there.
There's a screenshot.
00:58:24.97\00:58:26.47
It says,
"Welcome people from GYC."
00:58:26.50\00:58:29.70
You can have a
look on our website,
00:58:29.74\00:58:31.11
there's things you can do.
00:58:31.14\00:58:32.47
And right here are the links.
00:58:32.51\00:58:33.84
You can take your
smartphone out right now
00:58:33.88\00:58:35.38
and you can plug them in,
and you can find us later,
00:58:35.41\00:58:39.41
after your
session this afternoon,
00:58:39.45\00:58:44.39
after the seminars.
00:58:44.42\00:58:47.76
We need you. We need your help.
00:58:47.79\00:58:50.69
I want to thank
you for the opportunity
00:58:50.73\00:58:52.56
of being able to
come and share with you
00:58:52.59\00:58:54.66
a little of what's
going on in world in Asia.
00:58:54.70\00:58:57.87
I would like to propose
that you continue to pray
00:58:57.90\00:59:01.30
for these victims
and these children.
00:59:01.34\00:59:04.04
And please, if you remember,
00:59:04.07\00:59:05.97
pray for Esther and I
in the work that we do.
00:59:06.01\00:59:08.58
Thank you so much
and God bless you.
00:59:08.61\00:59:11.51